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If you're advocating for collectivist punishment, you're not pursuing justice, you're looking to give yourself satisfaction, at the expense of others, and in this case killing others. That's evil. Get rid of that crap. If someone is guilty of a capital crime, they get capital punishment. If...

The left are the ones obsessing most about this issue publicly now, not the right. But when it does come up, do you really think we're going to ignore the issue of mass baby-murder for political convenience? Whether or not you believe an unborn infant is a human being, pro-lifers do. Would you...

No, that would be 'human nature,' not 'the schismatic nature of Christianity.'

You could probably just fold it in to 'leftism' in general. It's not unique to the political left, but that's kind of like the fact that breast cancer isn't unique to women. It happens to other people, but it's certainly most common in one group.

Posts like this contribute to- The lack of this. A few years ago, there were more people interested in debate on this forum, and a lower proportion of black-pilled doom-posting and shit-flinging. You've unfortunately come in after most of the more thoughtful posters have either reduced their...

...No it wasn't. Democrats never really supported the war in Iraq; they briefly pretended to because it was popular, but that didn't last long. Free Trade is the only one you're probably correct on, but even then, 'they get to layer tariffs against us, we put none against them' is not actually...

The issue isn't size of forces of war-time production, but competence. And the Russian military is not sufficiently competent to tangle with NATO. The blitz towards Kyiv that Russia was trying to pull off in the opening moves of the invasion of Ukraine, especially trying to take Hostomel...

...You're going to have to explain this one for me, because I definitely can't see it.

They absolutely were socialists, just not the Marxist flavor.

It won't work that way, because cybernetic 'enhancement' isn't actually 'enhancement.' The human body is a fantastically capable of and robust machine, one which human technology still does not even approach matching the broad capabilities of. Sure, you could replace an arm with a machine...

He said 'a bit less,' not 'are irrelevant.' Tone on the internet and all, reading his exact intent is unclear, but you're still replying to something he didn't actually say.

I was going to say that only Obama qualified, but apparently by some reckonings I'm just barely off, Bush and Clinton squeak in, qualifying as the leading edge of Baby Boomers by some ways of counting. My question was supposed to lead into a point about how a lot of what Boomers are blamed for...

It generally wasn't soviet propaganda that did this, it was that so many academics were taught in schools that professed Marx already, and their personal vices bent them towards such things. For a while, soviet propaganda covered up how badly communism was failing, but that's quite different...

Can you name any specific boomers, or specific things implemented primarily by boomers, that are to blame?

There's no uniform group on things like this. Some more thoughtful sci-fi, especially cyberpunk subgenre like Ghost in the Shell, explicitly use cybernetics to explore 'what does it mean to be human?' in a context where physical humanity is being taken away. Some science fiction, like Eclipse...

I may be forgetting a post or two, but generally speaking in here people have been arguing against no fault divorce. You had very justified cause to find that man at fault, and systemic abuse is absolutely one of the reasons to not just divorce a man, but get him put in prison.

That Germany was a mess during the Weimar Republic will be discussed, but the fact that that mess was designed and operated by leftists/progressives, with the same kinds of moral degeneracy and substitution of dogma for effective government policies, is often not mentioned, much less focused on...

...At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if that's where Britain's future pivots. Even someone who was obviously a lunatic doing that, rather than just for symbolic reasons, might be able to overthrow the British government if he's actually willing to address the problems the gov't is actively...

Someone who is in a victory parade for Biden, can not by any reasonable measure be interpreted as an appropriate member of a Jury when Trump is on trial.

Prosthetics to recover missing or lost functionality, is a very different concept than transhumanism. Transhumanism seeks to leave physical and biological humanity behind, to become something 'more,' something 'better.'